Max

Obsessive climber, productivity enthusiast and spiritual / philosophical seeker. Entheogens 🍄

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

Al produces motion that works, but feels mediocre, and if you can't tell the difference, you'll ship it. You'll settle for good enough, and that's not good enough.

Train Your Judgement

https://t.co/xvYs5LyedD

[Max @MaxMush]

@ecomdonald GO

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over".

To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk.

That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented.

This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago
"The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live.

TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

"This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars.

You don't depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions.

It's a fire in a mad house!"

- Terrence McKenna

[Max @MaxMush]

@SebastianRoehl I’d love to test it 🙏

[Max @MaxMush]

@benspringwater Would love to test!

[Max @MaxMush]

@burkisoy Ai

[Max @MaxMush]

@levelsio Love that theory, but he might’ve been a very extreme end of times messiah 👀

https://t.co/03IRZD7Ohf

[Alex Grey @alexgreycosm]

The Tibetan Buddhists use the word bodhichitta to describe the awakening mind of enlightenment. They say that without the correct intention there is no advancement toward enlightenment, the spiritual practices just don't function. The proper motivation is to seek your own liberation for the benefit of all beings. The ideal is to develop a kind and empathic heart, dedicated to acting on behalf of the common good. Never have the effects of ignorance, greed, and hatred been more capable than today. The need for healing actions that foster collective awakening and demonstrate personal responsibility for global conditions has never been greater.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

To be fair what we need is the work ethic of Americans and the lifestyle of Europeans

I think it's possible to learn from eachother

I'm European btw

[Max @MaxMush]

@newsystems_ Brampton

[Gnome Anne May Perceive Me @annethegnome]

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀

Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station!

Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀
🧵

[Max @MaxMush]

The German Railway is the ultimate test for how stoic you really are 🧘‍♂️

[Taylor Sterling @FatherMcKennaa]

Happy Birthday and RIP to Terence McKenna- an author, orator, mystic, ethnobotanist, and psychedelic pioneer.

In honor of him, here's a thread about his life:

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Max @MaxMush]

@TheDailyShroom Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath

[Max @MaxMush]

Generating ai icebreakers while listening to the nostalgic minecraft soundtrack is the most chilled over ever been while working ⛏️ haha

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

America was supposed to be Art Deco - a thread of 10 iconic Art Deco designs 🧵

1. "Mercury" - a streamliner passenger train which operated between 1936 and 1959

[Max @MaxMush]

@Erwin_AI Dude just get a laptop stand, move your laptop screen up. And yoga everyday!!